Table of Contents

 

Number 1

 

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Report on Relief Work in the Santo Domingo Disaster.

By Commander Lucius W. Johnson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. 1

The Rontgen Demonstration of Calcified Filaria Bancrofti in Human Tissues.

By F. W. O'Connor, M. R. C. S., Ross Golden, M. D., and Hugh Auchincloss, M. D., New York City 17

Lowered Basal Metabolism: Its Causes and Clinical Significance.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) J. L. McCartney, Medical Corps, V (G), U. S. Naval Reserve.- 25

Recent Studies of the Dermatophytes, Including a Report of Experimental Inoculations of Monkeys and Guinea Pigs with two Dermatophytes and one Blastomycoides.

By Lieut. Commander G. B. Dowling, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 48

CLINICAL NOTES:

Eleven Cases of Cerebrospinal Fever.

By Commander H. F. Lawrence, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. 69

A Case of Anhematopoiesis Following Neoarsphenamine Therapy in the Treatment of Syphilis.

By Capt. J. H. Biello, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, and Lieut. (Junior Grade) J. Love, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 76

An Interesting Spinal Cord Tumor.

By Lieut. Commander J. W Allen, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, and Lieut. Commander P. T. Crosby, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 85

Gangrene of the Penis, Caused by Strong Iodine Solution.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) W. K. Hicks, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 88

Stock Solution of Glucose for Intravenous Use.

By Chief Pharmacist's Mate E. J. Christian, U. S. Navy 90

Simplified Technique for Converting Regular Dental Films into Use for Bite Wing Films.

By Lieut. Commander W. I. Ogus, Dental Corps, V (S), U. S. Naval Reserve . 90

NAVAL RESERVE... 93

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Letters of Commendation —Annual Report of Surgeon General, U. S. Navy, 1930 —Cerebrospinal fever — Study of influenza mortality in six epidemics, 1920-1929 —Real problems of modern medicine —

Promotion of medicine and pharmacy—Psittacosis—Prognosis of pleurisy with effusion —The trend of subarachnoid block —Ethylene oxide and ethylene dichloride, two new fumigants—Assistant Secretary speaks on Navy Medical Department — National Institute of Health, successor to the Hygienic aboratory 95

BOOK NOTICES:

A Century with the Norfolk Naval Hospital, Holcomb— Military Preventive Medicine, Dunham— Nervous Indigestion, Alvarez—A Text-Book of Medicine, Cecil—Arterial Hypertension, Stieglitz—A System of Clinical Medicine, Savill —Diet in Disease, Harrop — Hypertension, Gager —Pernicious Anaemia, Davidson and Gulland —Gonococcal Infection in the Male, Wolbarst— Burns, Types, Pathology, and Management, Pack and Davis—A Treatise on Orthopedic Surgery, Whitman — Rose and Carless' Manual of Surgery, Wakeley and Hunter— A Text-Book of Gynecology, Curtis — Minor Surgery and Bandaging, Williams —Tropical Medicine, Reed —Annual Report, Medical Department, United Fruit Company, 1929 —An Introduction to Malariology, Boyd—The Principles and Practice of Hygiene, Smiley, Gould, and Melby — Cross-Sections of Rural Health Progress, Mustard —Personal and Community Hygiene, Turner —Refraction of the Human Eye and Methods of Estimating the Refraction, Thorington —Chronic

Nasal Sinusitis and its Relation to General Medicine, Watson- Williams —Anatomy, Corner—Stalkers of Pestilence, Oliver—The Candiru, The Only Vertebrate Parasite of Man, Gudger —The Pathology of Diabetes Mellitus, Warren—A Text-Book of Pathology, Bell—A Text-Book of Physiology, Howell —Anatomy of the Human Body, Gray—Handbook of Anatomy, Young— A Text- Book of Operative Dentistry, McGehee — Prosthetic Dentistry, Nichols—Laboratory Medicine, Nicholson— Diseases of the skin, Andrews —Physiological Chemistry, Mathews — Handbook of Therapeutics, Campbell—Dietetics and Nutrition, Perry—A Text-Book of Massage for Nurses and Beginners, Rawlins — A Practical

Medical Dictionary, Stedman 119

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

An Epidemic of Bacillary Dysentery in the United States Fleet.

By Capt. W. H. Bell, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 139

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. 172

An Outbreak of Scarlet Fever on Board the U. S. S. Oklahoma.

By Commander W. I. Irvine, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy _ 178

Health of the Navy —Statistics 182

 

Number 2

 

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

A Psychological Study Made on Candidates for Aviation Training.

By Lieut. G. DeFoney, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 191

Report on the International Hygiene Exposition, Dresden, 1930.

By Capt. C. S. Butler, Medical Corps., U. 8. Navy 204

Simulated Deafness.

By Lieut. Commander H. C. Weber, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. 209

Simulation.

By Dr. Tom A. Williams, Washington, D. C 221

The Classification of Bacteria.

By Lieut. Commander J. M. McCants, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 224

The Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nev.

By Lieut. D. B. Peters, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. 229

CLINICAL NOTES:

Dermatitis Exfoliativa Following Neosalvarsan.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) A. C. Surber, Jr., Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 233

Granuloma Inguinale.

By Commander G. C. Thomas and Lieut. (Junior Grade) J. W. Kimbrough, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 237

Hypernephroma.

By Lieut. Commander M. J. Aston, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy._ 241

Hyperplastic Tuberculosis of Caecum Simulating Appendiceal

Abscess.

By Commander J. J. A. McMullin, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy.. 244

Local Anesthesia in Appendectomy.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) C. F. Storey, Medical Corps, U. S.

Navy. 246

Vitiligo.

By Lieut. H. L. Wyatt, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 250

A Simple Method of Gastric Analysis.

By Lieut. Commander W. H. Funk, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. . 251

NAVAL RESERVE ___ 253

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Post graduate training —The essentials of smallpox vaccination— Post vaccination encephalitis —The syphilology of to-day and to-morrow—Asymptomatic neurosyphilis —Is framboesia tropica a nosologic entity?—Bureau policy regarding fumigation of ships — Recent advances in the treatment of circulatory disturbances of the extremities —Diagnosis of tumors involving spinal cord —Intravenous urography by means of sodium salt of 5-iodo-2-pyridon-acetic acid —The cause of ginger paralysis definitely identified —Health conditions in the United States —Principal causes of death in the registration area: 1929 —International Congress of Radiology 255

BOOK NOTICES:

Introduction to Medical Biometry and Statistics, Pearl—Nosography, The Evolution of Clinical Medicine in Modern Times, Faber— Warren's Handbook of Anatomy, Warren—Recent Advances in Haematology, Piney— Microbiology and Elementary Pathology, Sinclair —Piersol's Human Anatomy —Recent Advances in the Study of Rheumatism, Poynton and Schlesinger —Internal Medicine, Rolleston—Chronic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Affections with Recovery Record, Wyatt —Operative Gynecology, Crossen —

Physical Diagnosis, Elmer—A Manual of Normal Physical Signs, Blanton— Medical Jurisprudence, Brothers—Legal Medicine and Toxicology, Webster —Textbook of Practical Therapeutics, Hare—

Emergency Surgery, Bailey—Historic Artificial Limbs, Putti — Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Digestive System, Kohn —Synopsis of Medicine, Tidy—Intestinal Toxemia, Bassler —Intestinal Tuberculosis, Brown and Sampson —Surgical Clinics of North America—How it Happened, Bettman 279

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

Tuberculosis.

By Capt. M. A. Stuart, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. 289

Lead Poisoning from Chipping on the U. S. S. ARIZONA.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) I. L. Norman, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy - - 337

Health of the Navy—Statistics 350

 

Number 3

 

PREFACE - VII

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS VIII

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Medical Aspects of Submarine "Lung" Training.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) L. K. MacCIatchie, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 357

Shock Due to Excessive Distension of the Lungs During

Training with Escape Apparatus.

By Capt. E. W. Brown, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 366

Observations on Submarine "Lung" Training.

By Lieut. B. H. Adams, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 370

Treatment of Recurrent Hernia.

By Lieut. Commander F. R. Hook, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy.. 373

A Glance at Results of the "Last Thirty Centuries" of Venereal-Disease Prevention.

By Capt. C. S. Butler, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 383

Cancer as a Federal Problem.

By Lieut. Commander E. L. Whitehead, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 393

A Method of Producing Sterile Blowfly Larva for Surgical Use.

By Lieut. Commander F. F. Murdoch, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, and Pharmacist's Mate, First Class, T. L. Smart, U. S. Navy 406

The Water Supply of the Naval Academy.

By Capt. J. C. Pryor, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. ..... 418

Anesthesia—The Minimum Requirements for Navy Needs.

By Lieut. Commander A. H. Dearing, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 423

Medical Literature.

By Lieut. Commander R. P. Parsons, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. 430

CLINICAL NOTES:

Aplastic Anemia Following Arsfhenamine Therapy.

By Lieut. Commander L. J. Roberts, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 441

Some Experiences with Quinidin in Auricular Fibriliation.

By Lieut. Commander W. M. Anderson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 446

Psychogenic Amblyopia.

By Lieut. Commander E. C. Ebert, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy.. 458

A Case of Heart Block with Stokes-Adams' Syndrome.

By Lieut. Commander A. S. Judy, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, and Pharmacist's Mate, First Class, F. E.  McAlaney, U. S. Navy... 463

Undulant Fever.

By Capt. H. F. Lawrence, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 465

Retroperitoneal Reticulum Cell Sarcoma.

By Lieut. Commander W. H. Funk, and Lieut. (Junior Grade) O. W. Wickstrom, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 469

Anaphylactic Shock Accompanying Benign Tertian Malaria.

By Capt. G. C. Thomas and Lieut. (Junior Grade) G. B. Ridout, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 470

Case of Calculus of Kidney Complicated by Pistol Bullet.

By Lieut. Commander L. B. Marshall, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 472

RESERVE CORPS... 475

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

New standard book list for fiscal year 1932 —Corrections—Quarantine treatment of United States naval vessels at United States ports — Uroselectan —The shift to the left —Some lessons of the distribution of infectious diseases in the British Navy —The present status of the cancer problem —Transverse incision for operations on urinary bladder —The need for "standards" in investigative and therapeutic work in gastorenterology —The new cytology — Naval Medical School Library — Ninety impressive medical books of recent issue— Meningococcemia with endocarditis —The health of Haiti —Removal of Rick bay bath tub — Mortality from influenza and pneumonia in 50 large cities of the United States, 1910-1929 —

American Public Health Association annual meeting —Third Congress of the Pan American Medical Association 477

BOOK NOTICES:

History of Medicine in the United States, Packard—Selections from the Papers and Speeches of John Chalmers DaCosta.— Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Tumors, Sachs— Practical Clinical Psychiatry for Students and Practitioners, Strecker and Ebaugh—Principles and Practice of Perimetry, Peter —Textbook of Laboratory Diagnosis, Osgood and Haskins— Chinin, in der Allgemeinpraxis, Johannessohn

— Physics of Radiology, Weather-wax —Practical Radiation Therapy, Kaplan —Introduction to Practical Bacteriology, Mackie and McCartney —Surgical Nursing, Cabot and Giles — Manual of the Common Contagious Diseases, Stimson —Lovett's Lateral Curvature of the Spine and Round Shoulders, Ober and Brewster — Fractures and their Complications, Wilson—The Antiquity of Hindu Medicine and Civilization, Muthu —The Beloved Physician, Mackenzie, Wilson— Physiology, Fulton — Fads, Frauds and Physicians, Harding —Cancer, Meyer—Clinical Allergy Particularly Asthma and HayFever, Mechanism and Treatment, Rackemann —The Clinical Interpretation of Blood Examinations, Kilduffe —Surgical Emergencies in Practice, Cromanis and Mitchiner —A Manual of Surgery, Stewart and Lee—The Pathology of Internal Diseases, Boyd— Principles of Bacteriology and Immunity, Topley and Wilson—

Abdomino-Pehic Diagnosis in Women, Walscheid — Therapeutics Materia Medica and Pharmacy, Potter—Traumatotherapy, The Treatment of the Injured, Moorhead— Modern Surgery, DaCosta —

Operative Obstetrics on the Manikin, Reed —Pye's Surgical Handicraft, Carson —Synopsis of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary Preparations, Fuller 499

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

Effects of Super-High-Frequency Radio Current on Health of Men Exposed Under Service Conditions.

By Capt. W. H. Bell, and Lieutenant Commander D. Ferguson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 525

The Dominick-Lauter Method Compared with Standard Methods in Differentiating the Coli-Aerogenes Group in Water Analysis.

By Lieutenant Commander J. M. McCants, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 552

Post-Vaccinal Encephalitis.

By Capt. W. H. Bell, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 560 Report of Dengue Epidemic in American Samoa.

By Lieut. Commander W. W. Hargrave, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 565

Health of the Navy —Statistics 572

 

Number 4

 

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Undulant Fever (Brucelliasis) .

By Lieut. W. M. Simpson, Medical Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve. 581

Treatment of Head Injuries.

By Comdr. Lucius W. Johnson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 592

Fractures of the Neck of the Femur.

By Lieut. D. S. O'Connor, Medical Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve. 598

Surgical Goiter.

By Lieut. Commander K. E. Lowman, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 602

War-Time Lessons Applied to Peace-Time Warfare.

By Commander W. S. Bainbridge, Medical Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve 608

Toxic Amblyopia.

By Lieut. Commander J. J. White, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy.. 614

Development of Dental Officers for Responsible Positions.

By Lieut. Commander W. Rehrauer, Dental Corps, U. S. Navy. 616

Rhinoneurosis.

By Lieut. C. A. Swanson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 618

SPECIAL SECTION:

Splint Manual, United States Navy.

By Comdr. G. F. Cottle, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 623

CLINICAL NOTES:

Gradenigo's Syndrome.

By Lieut. Commander C. J. Brown, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy.. 651

Strangulated Hernia.

By Lieut. Commander E. A. M. Gendreau, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, and Dr. Martial Bourand _ _ 656

Undulant Fever.

By Lieut. G. F. Cooper and Lieut. A. A. Marsteller, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 660

Undulant Fever in China.

By Lieut. F. M. Rohow, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy._ 664

Rupture of Aneurysm of Abdominal Aorta from a Surgical Viewpoint.

By Lieut. Commander G. A. Eckert and Lieut. R. E. Baker,

Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 667

Pseudo-elephantiasis of the Scrotum.

By Lieut. Commander J. A. Topper and Lieut. R. E. Baker, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy 671

Recurrent Subluxation of the Head of the Humerus from Muscular Atrophy.

By Lieut. D. S. O'Connor, Medical Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve.. 673

NAVAL RESERVE 675

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Organization of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery —Specialization in the Medical Corps of the Navy — Naval medical officer assigned to Gorgas Memorial Institute — Naval Medical School term lengthened— Bismuth in treatment of syphilis—Controversies on yaws, syphilis relationship, and origin of syphilis— Dementia praecox — Status of radiology—American College of Physicians— Graduate fortnight of the New York Academy of Medicine 677

BOOK NOTICES:

White, Heart Disease —Zinsser, Resistance to Infectious Diseases — Warthin, The Physician of the Dance of Death— McLester, Nutrition and Diet in Health and Disease — Dunham, Military Preventive Medicine— Lees, Practical Methods in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Venereal Diseases —Culpin, Recent Advances in the Study of the Psychoneuroses— Alexander and Staub, The Criminal, the Judge, and the Public —Strecker, Discovering Ourselves — Ashhurst, Surgery, Its Principles and Practice—Kirschner, Operative Surgery —Webb, Ren6 Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec —Riesman, Thomas Sydenham —Bast, The Life and Time of Adolf Kussmaul —Garrison, Principles of Anatomic Illustration before Vesalius— Hume, Max von Pettenkofer—Harvey, The History of Hemostasis —Todd and Sanford, Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods— Loewenberg, Diagnostic Methods and Interpretations in Internal Medicine—Rowe, Food Allergy, Its Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment— Gauss, Clinical Dietetics, A Textbook for Physicians, Students, and Dietitians —-Blum, Practical Dietetics for Adults and Children in Health and Diseases— Schalek, Fundamentals of Dermatology— Kerley, Recent Advances in Radiology — Hadfield, Practical Anesthetics — Douthwaite, The Treatment of Asthma—Roberts, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat for Nurses — Spencer, Diseases of the Tongue— Biddle, Chemistry for Nurses —

Petty, Diabetes, Its Treatment by Insulin and Diet—International Medical Annual, 1931 — Morley, Abdominal Pain —Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Foundation —Rockwell, Streptococcic Blood Stream Infections— Goldbacher, Hemorrhoids, The Injection Treatment and Pruritus Ani — Miller, An Introduction to Gynecology 697

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

The Navy from the Insurance Aspect.

By Rear Admiral C. E. Riggs, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 719

Toxic Effects of Arsenical Compounds Employed in the Treatment of Syphilis in the United States Navy.

By Capt. W. H. Bell, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 737

Health of the Navy —Statistics 770

INDEX TO SUBJECTS 779

INDEX TO AUTHORS 788

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